The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-18
JACKSONVILLE.
Mr.. LLOYD'S MARITAL TROUBLES
Rumored Reoreanization OF the Florida Railway
and Navigation COMPANY Military
Reception.
SnecinI 10 The PnIdtkd NeIrs.

JACkooNNIl2 A-AA-f
put it mildly, surely 'SheOl hath no fury
like a woman scorned," and such no
doubt are the unpleasant reflections
to-day of Lucius Mcqueen Lloyd, who
once again has full time for quiet re-
Election behind prison bars.
Only yesterday afternoon, as reported
to THE PALATKA News, Lucius Mcqueen
LLOYD stepped forth from Justice Jack
sons court, as he thought, a free man and
free from the damaging charge of being
a bigamist. But the sequel will show
that he was not destined to go his way
in confident peace and security. Hardly
had he been released when a brother of
the woman, Mrs. Mary A Lloyd, nee
North, as she styled herself. arrived here
from Augusta, Ga. and the two went
before the Grand Jury. now in session,
and had Lloyd indicted upon the charge
of bigamy, or ''polygamy" as the indict-
ment has it. He was again arrested this
morning and placed in Jail.
1t will be remembered this first Mrs.
Lloyd charges that she was married to
Lucius McQwen Lloyd at Columbia, S.
c., in 1882; that he soon afterward de-
serted her and came here to jacksonville,
where in 1855 he married one Henrietta
Mann, with whom las has since lived,
the fruit of the union being several chill
dren. Lloyd stoutly denied the accusa-
ton and plead not guilty to the serious
impeachment. The burden of proof was
of course on the complainant, and hav-
ing no witnesses the justice could do
aught else but turn Lloyd aloose.
The arrival of the brother, how ever, it
would seem, puts the case in a far less
favorable light for Lloyd. as it is alleged
he claims to have been present at the
solemn ceremony that joined his sister
to the recreant defendant. They claim
the marriage certificate will be produced
when Lloyd comes to be Judged by
jury of his peers in the next Circuit
Court.
The case has excited no little interest
here, both ON account of the handsome
appearance and intelligent bearing of the
complainant, who is a stately blonde,
well, even fashionably dressed, and bears
the stamp of having been well reared,
and the later local life of the defendant,
who. though pursuing an humble Occu-
pation-he was gate keeper at the
Brooklyn crossing of the Florida Railway
and Navigation Road-was regarded as
a quiet, industrious and dutiful family
man, and had made warm friends since
his residence here, He had very re-
spectacle family, among whom is an
aged mother, whose grief and that of his
present wife is said to be very pitiabie at
the troubles and tribulations of the son
and husband.
FLORIDA RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION
COMPANY.
IL is said here to-day that the long
talked-of reorganization of the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company has
been perfected by the bondholders in
New York.
Receiver Duval is now in New York,
and the other subordinate officials of the
system refuse, as yet, to tell who are to
be the new officials or what plans the
new organization has mapped out. 1t is
hinted, however, that the reorganization
means the taking of the road out of the
hands of the receiver. 1t will be remem-
bered that the entire system is now in
that officials hands by the order of the
United States Court, and of course, new
DEGREES of the court will have to be OBJ
tanned to perfect any new arrangement.
The United States Court convenes here
again June /.
RECEPTION To CAPT. AND MRS. CALL.
The reception to Capt. and Mrs. RydOn
Nj. Call, given by the Jacksonville Light
Infantry, at their ArmOry, tonight, was
in every respect brilliant and enjOya-
bic affair. The ball is now in progress,
and the beauty and chivalry of the me-
tropolis are Willing away the midnight
hours in the '.sweet obliviOus mazes" of
the waltz. CAML